Abstract
The central nervous system (CNS), which is the brain, constitutes the seat of mental functions. A basic picture according to frontal, sagittal, and transverse planes is shown in Fig. 2.1.
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Fountoulakis, K.N. (2022). Gross Anatomy of the Brain. In: The Human Connectome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10351-3_2
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